Comment by MobiusHorizons

Quite a lot of the good programmers I have worked with may never have needed to write assembly, but are also not at all confused or daunted by it. They are curious about their abstractions, and have a strong grasp of what is going on beneath the curtain even if they don't have to lift it all that often.

Most of the people I work with, however, just understand the framework they are writing and display very little understanding or even curiosity as to what is going on beneath the first layer of abstraction. Typically this leaves them high and dry when debugging errors.

Anecdotally I see a lot more people with a shallow expertise believing the AI hype.